Yifei Dong

Hi there! I’m a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm under the supervision of Asoc. Prof. Florian T. Pokorny. Previously, I received my M.Sc. from ETH Zurich and my B. Sc. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Other details can be found in my CV.

Robots face challenges in achieving human-level robustness in manipulation. My research focuses on enhancing control policies and co-designing robot morphology to improve performance under uncertainties in contacts, object properties, and environments.

selected publications

Quasi-static Soft Fixture Analysis of Rigid and Deformable Objects

Yifei Dong, and Florian T. Pokorny

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

Bib PDF Code Website

@article{dong2023quasi,
  title = {Quasi-static Soft Fixture Analysis of Rigid and Deformable Objects},
  author = {Dong, Yifei and Pokorny, Florian T.},
  journal = {International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2024},
}

Characterizing Manipulation Robustness through Energy Margin and Caging Analysis

Yifei Dong, Xianyi Cheng, and Florian T. Pokorny

Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024

Bib PDF

@article{dong2024caging,
  title = {Characterizing Manipulation Robustness through Energy Margin and Caging Analysis},
  author = {Dong, Yifei and Cheng, Xianyi and Pokorny, Florian T.},
  journal = {Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
  year = {2024},
}